Disk Storage Increases

The first thing to keep in mind is it's not over yet. At the FAST
[File and Storage Technologies] conference about a year-and-a-half
ago, Mark Kryder of Seagate Research was very apologetic. He said the
end is near; we only have a factor of 100 left in density--then the
Seagate guys are out of ideas. So this 200-gig disk that you're
holding will soon be 20 terabytes, and then the disk guys are out of
ideas. The database guys are already out of ideas!

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